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| A New World: the 17th and 18th Centuries | |
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| First Encounters | |
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| Narragansett Women, Roger Williams, 1643 | |
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| Women's Lives Among the Delaware, John Heckewelder, 1819 | |
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| Iroquois Women in Government, Pierre de Charlevoix, 1721 | |
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| A New England Captivity, Mary Rowlandson, 1681 | |
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| Life Among the Seneca, Mary Jemison, 1824 | |
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| The First Ship, Chinook Tale | |
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| Weil-Ordered Families | |
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| Husbands and Wives, Benjamin Wadsworth, 1712 | |
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| Evangelical Child-Rearing, Susanna Wesley, 1732 | |
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| To Improve in Every Virtue, Eliza Pinckney, 1750s | |
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| Tied Hand and Foot, Esther Burr, 1756-1757 | |
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| An Abominable Wickedness, Abigail Bailey, 1815 | |
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| A Decree on Seduction, New Spain, 1752 | |
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| The Colonial Economy | |
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| Growing Corn/Grinding Corn, Cherokee and Zuni Tales | |
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| Laws on Slave Descent, Virginia and Maryland, 1662-1692 | |
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| Skilled Slaves in Maryland, The Maryland Gazette, 1748-1763 | |
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| An Indentured Servant's Complaint, Elizabeth Sprigs, 1756 | |
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| Apprenticeship in Pennsylvania, List of Indentures, 1771-1773 | |
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| Adventure Schools, Advertisements, 1750s-1770s | |
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| A Maine Midwife, Martha Ballard, 1785 | |
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| Women and the Law | |
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| An Antenuptial Contract, Massachusetts, 1653 | |
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| Divorce in New England, Connecticut, 1655-1678 | |
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| A Separation Decision, Maryland, 1680 | |
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| A Feme Sole Trader Act, South Carolina, 1744 | |
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| Malefactors and Complainants, Massachusetts, 1675-1680 | |
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| Widows, Wills, and Dower Rights, Virginia, 1642, and New York, 1721-1759 | |
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| Women's Estates, Massachusetts, 1664, and New York, 1747-1759 | |
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| Accusations Against Elizabeth Morse, Massachusetts, 1679-1680 | |
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| Religious Experiences | |
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| The Ghost Wife, Pawnee Tale | |
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| A Spiritual Autobiography, Anne Bradstreet, ca. 1670 | |
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| Anne Hutchinson's Trial, Massachusetts Bay, 1637 | |
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| An Epistle to Quaker Women, Lancashire Women's Meeting, 1675 | |
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| Narrative of Old Elizabeth, A Former Slave Recalls Her Religious Conversion of the 1770s | |
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| "Jewishness is Pushed Aside Here", Rebecca Alexander Samuel, 1790s | |
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| The Revolutionary Era | |
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| An Address to George III, Phillis Wheatley, 1768 | |
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| A Carolina Patriot, Eliza Wilkinson, 1782 | |
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| A Loyalist Wife, Grace Galloway, 1778-1779 | |
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| Description of Molly Brant, Mohawk and Loyalist, Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin, c. 1780 | |
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| Remember the Ladies, Abigail Adams, 1776 | |
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| Thoughts Upon Female Education, Benjamin Rush, 1787 | |
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| Excellency in Our Sex, Judith Sargent Murray, 1790 | |
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| From Charlotte Temple, Susanna Haswell Rowson, 1791 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| the Young Nation, 1800-1860 | |
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| The Middle Class: Domestic Lives | |
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| Matrimonial Risks, Emma Willard, 1815 | |
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| The Deferential Wife, Caroline Gilman, 1838 | |
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| System and Order, Catharine Beecher, 1841 | |
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| First to None, Catharine M. Sedgwick, 1828 | |
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| The Widowed State, Sarah Connell Ayer, 1832-1833 | |
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| The School and the Mill | |
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| Rules of the School, Eliza Ann Mulford, 1814 | |
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| A Rationale for Female Education, Emma Willard, 1819 | |
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| A Choctaw Mission School, Miss Burnham's Report, 1824 | |
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| Reports on Western Schools, Letters From Teachers, 1847 | |
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| Rules of the Mill, Lowell and Lancaster, 1820-1840 | |
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| A Letter from Lowell, Harriet Farley, 1844 | |
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| A Spirit of Protest, the Voice of Industry, 1846 | |
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| Western Frontiers | |
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| A Spanish Mission in California, Eulalia Perez on the 1820s | |
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| A Norwegian Immigrant in Wisconsin, Jannicke Saehle, 1847 | |
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| A Mormon Convert Crosses the Plains, Jean Rio Baker, 1851 | |
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| A Woman's View of the Gold Rush, Mary B. Ballou, 1852 | |
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| Cherokee Women Resist Removal, Petitions of the Women's Councils, 1817, 1818 | |
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| Life Among the Piutes, Sarah Winnemucca, 1883 | |
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| A Woman Kills Her Daughter, Sioux Tale | |
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| Mistress and Slave | |
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| An Alabama Diary, Sarah Haynesworth Gayle, 1828, 1833 | |
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| The Cruel Mistress, Angelina Grimk� Weld, 1839 | |
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| Mrs. Chesnut's Complaint, Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1861 | |
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| A Georgia Plantation, Fanny Kemble, 1838-1839 | |
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| An Atmosphere of Licentiousness and Fear, Harriet A. Jacobs, 1861 | |
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| Rose Williams's Story, Federal Writers' Project Interviews, 1941 | |
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| The Reform Impulse | |
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| Seduced and Abandoned, The Advocate of Moral Reform, 1838 | |
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| The Water Cure, Mary S. Gove, 1846 | |
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| O, Ye Daughters of Africa, Awake!, Maria W. Stewart, 1831 | |
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| A Letter to the Liberator, Andover Female Antislavery Society, 1836 | |
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| Reply to the Massachusetts Clergy, Sarah Grimk�, 1837 | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 | |
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| Lucy Stone's Marriage Protest, Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone, 1855 | |
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| Sojourner Truth Speaks, 1851 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| the Late Nineteenth Century, 1860-1900 | |
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| Civil War and Reconstruction | |
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| A Union Nurse, Louisa May Alcott, 1863 | |
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| Northern Women on Farms, Mary A. Livermore, 1890 | |
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| A Wartime Mistress, Louticia Jackson, 1863 | |
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| Confronting Defeat, Eva B. Jones, 1865 | |
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| Moments of Emancipation, Accounts of Former Slaves, 1865 and After (Harriet Tubman, Clarissa Burdett, Fanny Berry, Katie Rowe, A Tennessee Woman, Mary Anderson, Katie Darling) | |
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| Teaching the Freedmen, Sarah Chase and Lucy Chase, 1866-1868 | |
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| Visits From the Klan, Harriet Hernandes Testifies, 1871 | |
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| "Dey Went Out Laughin' Fit to Kill", Anna Parkes on the 1870s | |
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| A Former Slave Remembers the War Susie King Taylor, 1902 | |
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| Urban Wage Earners | |
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| New York Prostitutes, William Sanger, 1858 | |
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| Contract Between Mee Yung and Yut Kum, San Francisco, 1874 | |
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| Objections to Domestic Service, Lucy Maynard Salmon, 1897 | |
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| Black Servants in Philadelphia, Isabel Eaton, 1899 | |
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| The Office Clerk, Clara Lanza, 1891 | |
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| A Labor Organizer, Leonora Barry, 1888 | |
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| College Women | |
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| Miss D. and Miss E., Edward H. Clarke, 1873 | |
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| Sex in Education Attacked, Julia Ward Howe et al, 1874 | |
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| A Debate Over Coeducation, Olive Anderson, 1878 | |
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| A College Romance, M. Carey Thomas, 1877 | |
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| An African American Experience at Oberlin, Mary Church Terrell on the 1880s | |
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| The Marriage Question, Milicent Washburn Shinn, 1895 | |
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| Clubs, Causes, and Reform | |
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| A Temperance Tale, Mary Clement Leavitt, 1888 | |
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| The Woman's Club, Cleveland Sorosis, 1893 | |
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| The Black Club Movement, Fannie Barrier Williams, ca. 1900 | |
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| An Indian Teacher Among Indians, Zitkala-Sa, 1900 | |
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| Early Days at Hull-House, Jane Addams, 1892 | |
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| Socialism Defended, Florence Kelley, 1887 | |
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| A White Woman's Falsehood, Ida B. Wells, 1894 | |
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| Woman Suffrage/Women's Rights | |
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| The Joys of Activism, Julia Ward Howe, 1899 | |
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| Political Lessons, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony on the 1860s | |
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| We Are All Bound Up Together, Frances Ellen Harper, 1866 | |
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| Susan B. Anthony on Trial (1873) | |
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| Working Women Debate Woman Suffrage, the Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1874 | |
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| Losing the West, the South Dakota Campaign of 1890 | |
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| An "Anti" Speaks Out, Amelia Barr, 1896 | |
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| New Women/New Century | |
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| The Ills of the Home, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903 | |
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| City Housekeeping, Jane Addams, 1906 | |
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| A Voice from the South, Anna J. Cooper, 1892 | |
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| "This is the South's Idea of Justice", An Alabama Woman, 1902 | |
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| Immigrant Women and Their Jobs, Caroline Manning on the Early 1900s | |
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| A Sweatshop Girl's Story, Sadie Frowne, 1902 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |